affect responses to questions about income and consumption adequacy. Controlling for migration, results show that isolation …

What drives migration and remittance behaviour in South Africa, and what are the implications for public policy? This … longitudinal data spanning 1993 to 2004 from KwaZula-Natal province. Findings generally accord with expectations if migration is a … receipt of public transfer income raises the likelihood of migration (most likely because migration is costly and households …

farming, local non-farming and temporary migration activites. The returns to non-farming greatly exceed those to farming, for …

This paper explores the effects of unemployment on the school enrolment decisions. A few studies that have taken up … enrolment decision that is capable of explaining these results in a unified manner. In this model, unemployment affects the …

unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …

on unemployment are examined. The model controls for macroeconomic shocks, and include the possibility of interactions …

-urban divides, forms of migrant labour, rapid rural-urban migration, and high and rising real wages in the formal sector, the two …, and in the growth of their labour forces. Whereas China - a labour-surplus economy par excellence despite unemployment … historically has been short of labour - is moving towards increased labour surplus in the form of open unemployment. The paper …